Silver Spring Trails follows the Interim Metropolitan Branch Trail signs.
I was able to follow the signs for the interim on-road route from Piney Branch Road to Fort Totten Drive and back today.
All of the turns are marked by the directional turn signs. Route signs pointing straight were placed after some turns and on some longer stretches, a good signing practice to reassure that “yes, you are still on the route”.
FABB reports that Virginia may change the way it apportions Transportation Enhancement money, with more emphasis on transportation-oriented bicycle and pedestrian projects and less emphasis on historic preservation projects. A public meeting will be held on this on Nov. 19th at 9:00 a.m. at the VDOT Central Office Auditorium, 1221 E. Broad St., Richmond or send comments by email.
The categories that would receive funding in FY2013 are those that promote core transportation functions: Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities, Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Education, Landscaping and Scenic Beautification along Transportation Corridors (including streetscape improvements), and Preservation of Abandoned Railway Corridors and Conversion to Trails (traditional rails-to-trails and rails-with-trails projects).
We support most of the proposed changes. We don't support the inclusion of landscaping and scenic beautification projects unless they include bicycle facilities.
The 2010 Virginia Cross State Ride will follow Bike 76, from Breaks Interstate Park on the Kentucky border, to Chickahominy Riverfront Park in Yorktown. It will be a 2-week tour with sagged camping.
Two DC locations, including the Capital Crescent Trail, made the finals of locations where the Google Trike might first visit. There were 0 locations in Texas, Alaska and 35 other states. (via GGW) Vote here.
David Alpert also writes about the problems caused by DC's weak "Emergency No Parking" program. People don't actually move their cars or avoid parking in these spaces. The police don't enforce them and so when moving trucks show up they have to double park - sometimes in the bike lane. This happened to David Alpert and it happened to me last year. In fact this photo on Mybikelane DC is of my movers - who by the way are great and would've legally parked if they could have. I was standing just off camera to the left as rjudd took this photo and thought at the time "I bet that's for Mybikelane" and it was.
I rode the entire Met branch trail from Silver Spring to Union Station just to try it out and shot both my tires, careful lots of glass on the trail near Brookland metro, also I rode this on Saturday and was wondering how safe this could be during the week riding against traffic in a one way street from New Hampshire Ave to Fort Totten Rd
Posted by: Susan Schneider | November 29, 2009 at 02:23 PM